Friends of Prostate Sufferers - Prostate Cancer Support Group
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About UsWe're the FOPS
The FOPS are based in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire. We have eminent Urologists, a Nurse Specialist and a local GP on the FOPS council, as well as support from the local Chorleywood surgeries. The group [...]
NewsReport on the support group evening at The Junction
13th April 2016Dear All, Although we were all very reluctant to leave the familiarity of 34, I am sure you would now admit The Junction is an altogether more accommodating venue. With 48 in attendance, I am not sur[...]
NewsFOPS Support Group Meeting Film
19th October 2015At a recent FOPS Support Group Meeting in 2015 Matthew Joblin, the director of Creative Colony, and his crew of four, filmed the evening as we were selected for a Macmillan funded and sponsored video [...]
NewsFOPS Counselling
23rd September 2015The FOPS are pleased to announce a free confidential counselling service for men or their partners affected by their condition or treatment. What Counselling means There are many times in our lives [...]
NewsFOPS in "Prostate Matters" Publication
22nd August 2015A FOPS article published in 2015 in "Prostate Matters" a national publication The Friends of Prostate Sufferers (FOPS) Support Group at No.34 A can-do attitude to setting up a support group at home [...]
NewsFOPS 55000+ website hits
19th August 2015As you can see we recently achieved a significant milestone in the FOPS journey by passing 55,000 hits on our humble website. I (Derek Towner) am the webmaster and was part of the FOPS founding group[...]
NewsFOPS in Cyprus
19th April 2015Derek the FOPS webmaster (post prostate cancer) now lives in Cyprus and supports a local cancer association through which he has publicised the FOPS and made it known that he is always there for suppo[...]
NewsFOPS on National Radio
28th August 2014Remember DJ diddy David Hamilton? - well Paul Bloomfield one of our FOPS managed in 2014 to get a plug for himself and the FOPS on David Hamilton's show on "Wireless UK" the radio station for the char[...]
EventFOPS Gazebo is born at the Ricky Festival 2014
18th June 2014Apart from giving out about 1500 leaflets and collecting £107, the day was notable as perhaps the first of many in which PCUK Volunteers helped to swell the ranks, with Trevor Walker’s eff[...]
EventFabulous FOPS Fiesta
18th January 2014Saturday the Fifteenth January will for ever be known as The Dance Machine Night- the night that eighty or more revellers packed into the Clubhouse at Chorleywood Tennis Club and then danced, jived, a[...]
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Personal Stories
Jim's Story It was quite a shock to be diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 2008. I had been to the Doctors with a waterworks problem as many men do. I got up a lot at night but had had this problem a long time. I had various tests but no improvement on my water works. So at 71 years of age I decided to h... Read more...
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We can't do it without your Support! - You can make a donation to The FOPS at one of our events or support groups. Alternativly, please contact our team to arrange a donation via cheque or bank transfer.
